Syracuse, NY -- A 24-year-old Syracuse man is charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death Monday of Justin Mills, 18. Shawnde Washington, 24, was in City Court this morning for arraignment on the charge.

City Court Judge Kate Rosenthal entered an innocent plea on Washington's behalf, but the arraignment was postponed until this afternoon because the district attorney's office could not produce a document the judge requested.

Reading from the bench, Rosenthal said Washington is accused of being at 148 W. Brighton Ave. when a disturbance broke out. One of the people asked Washington to watch his back, Rosenthal read.

Washington, who had a small caliber sawed-off long gun in his possession, confronted people in the front yard of 148 W. Brighton Ave. and fired the rifle, mortally wounding Mills, Rosenthal read.